Why Navy Aircraft Carriers (Now Armed with F-35s) Aren't Going Anywhere

[rangerrebew]

April 9, 2021

Why Navy Aircraft Carriers (Now Armed with F-35s) Aren't Going Anywhere

Upgraded anti-missile defenses and long-range refueler drones could let current aircraft carriers, and the more important emerging Ford-class, continue fighting despite modern threats.
by Kris Osborn

U.S. Navy aircraft carriers are said to be extremely vulnerable to modern missile attacks, since they represent huge floating targets that are less agile and mobile in high threat circumstances. In fact, some commentators have gone so far as to wonder if recently emerging long range anti-ship missiles may have rendered aircraft carriers obsolete.

This is not true, at least according to many prominent Navy leaders, weapons developers, futurists and influential members of Congress. All of these leaders clearly explain that America’s signature emblem of maritime power is going nowhere.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-navy-aircraft-carriers-now-armed-f-35s-arent-going-anywhere-182329

[rangerrebew]

This report brought to you, in part, by an admiral who doesn't believe BLM is a political organization and, therefore, a member can be in the Navy.

[PeteS in CA]

There's a reason ad hominem attacks are considered fallacies. That said, no admiral or USN officer wrote or contributed to that article.

This carriers-are-obsolete-because-anti-ship-missiles argument has been bandied about for over 40 years. Counter-measures have kept pace and the only carrier sinkings have been of retired carriers being sunk to create artificial reefs. There's no reason to think counter-measures can't continue to keep pace with anti-ship weapons.